WelcometotheEl
Rancho Vegas Online Exhibit. The El Rancho Vegas was the first
casino resort built on what would become the Las Vegas Strip.
It opened on April 3, 1941 and closed after a catastrophic fire on
June 17, 1960.

This online exhibit has two aspects:

In the first, visitors can
browse a website extolling the comforts and amenities of the El Rancho
Vegas. If the El Rancho Vegas had survived into the Internet age, its website might have looked something like this.

CasinoThe most historically significant four tables on the Strip, and much more.

DiningEnjoy the Round-Up Room or Opera House, depending on the year. See the Strip's first buffet!

EntertainmentThrill to headliners from Abbot and Costello to Zero Mostel!

Accommodations
Stay in the rooms where William Saroyan "slept the drunken sleep of the losing gambler."

The second half of the
exhibit contextualizes the first, and showcases many artifacts, physical,
photographic, and literary, of the El Rancho Vegas. It is more
like a traditional exhibition display, telling the history of the storied Strip resort: